Subject Heading and Term Source Codes
Introduction
Subject Source Codes
Subject Source Code Usage in MARC and
MODS/MADS
Introduction
Subject Sources identifies subject heading lists, thesauri, and databases that are the sources of topical, geographic, chronological, and other headings or terms used to describe the subject content of a resource, and assigns a code to each source. The purpose of this list is to identify the vocabulary used in records. For code assignment, general structure, usage, and maintenance guidelines see Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes.
These sources are general subject heading
and thesauri, such as the Library of
Congress Subject Headings, along with a number of
focused subject term lists like Medical Subject
Headings or Getty Thesaurus of Geographic
Names. Additional specialized lists are
provided with source codes in
Genre/Form Term and Code
Source Codes
Occupation Term Source
Codes
Function Term Source
Codes
Since general thesauri often contain a broad
spectrum of terms, including genre, forms, occupations,
and functions, the source codes in this list may be
used in the metadata elements identified for each of
the specialized source lists. Likewise, the
special thesauri listed there may also be used in the
metadata elements identified below under
usage.
Some subject heading lists incorporate names and titles and others employ independent name and title lists for parts of a subject heading. Thus the lists assigned source codes in Name and Title Source Codes may also be used in the metadata elements identified below under usage.
Classification schemes and subject category codes include caption terms and, frequently, index terms that identify the classes in the scheme and the category codes. Some systems use those caption and index terms as subject terms in bibliographic records. Thus the lists assigned source codes in Classification Scheme Source Codes and Subject Category Code Source Codes may also be used in the metadata elements identified below under usage, when the terms from those classification schemes and subject category codes are used as subject terms.
Arrangement of the List
Entries in the list are arranged in alphabetical order by the code and consist of the source code followed by the bibliographic citation for the source documentation. The citations are linked to the online source for some codes.
Code Structure
Each code consists of a maximum of 12 lowercase alphabetic characters. Possible additions to codes are described in Source Codes.
Subject Source Codes
- aass
- "Asian American Studies Library subject headings" in A Guide for establishing Asian American core collections. (Berkeley, CA: Asian American Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley)
- aat
- Art & architecture thesaurus (Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute, Getty Vocabulary Program)
- abne
- Autoridades de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España)
- agrifors
- AGRIFOREST-sanasto (Helsinki: Helsingin Yliopisto)
- agrovoc
- AGROVOC multilingual agricultural thesaurus. (Rome: APIMONDIA)
- agrovocf
- AGROVOC thésaurus agricole multilingue (Rome: APIMONDIA)
- agrovocs
- AGROVOC tesauro agrícola multilingüe (Roma: APIMONDIA)
- afset
- American Folklore
Society Ethnographic Thesaurus
- aiatsisl
-
AIATSIS language thesaurus (Canberra:
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies)
- aiatsisp
-
AIATSIS place thesaurus (Canberra:
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies)
- aiatsiss
-
AIATSIS Subject Thesaurus (Canberra:
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Studies)
- aktp
- Alphavetikos Katalogos Thematikon Perigrapheon (Naupaktos: Papacharalampeios Demosia Kentrike Vivliotheke Naupaktou)
- albt
- Arbetslivsbibliotekets tesaurus (Stockholm: Arbetslivsbiblioteket)
- allars
- Allärs: allmän tesaurus på svenska (Helsingfors: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu)
- apaist
- APAIS thesaurus: a list of subject terms used in the Australian Public Affairs Information Service (Canberra: National Library of Australia)
- asft
- Aquatic sciences and fisheries thesaurus (Rome: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- asrcrfcd
-
Australian Standard Research Classification: Research
Fields, Courses and Disciplines (RFCD)
classification (Canberra:
Australian Bureau of Statistics)
- asrcseo
-
Australian Standard Research Classification:
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) classification
(Canberra:
Australian Bureau of Statistics)
- asrctoa
-
Australian Standard Research Classification: Type of
Activity (TOA) classification (Canberra:
Australian Bureau of Statistics)
- asth
- Astronomy thesaurus (Epping, N.S.W.: Anglo-Australian Observatory for the International Astronomical Union)
- atla
- Religion indexes: thesaurus (Evanston, IL: American Theological Library Association
- aucsh
- Qâ'imat ru'ûs mawdû'ât al-fahras al-'Arabîyah al-mowahad = Arabic Union Catalog Subject Headings
- barn
- Svenska ämnesord för barn (Stockholm: Svensk biblioteksförening)
- bella
- Bella: specialtesaurus för skönlitteratur (Helsingfors: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu)
- bet
- British education thesaurus (Leeds: Leeds University Press)
- bhammf
- BHA, Bibliographie d'histoire de l'art, mots-matière/français (Paris: Institut national d'information scientifique et technique)
- bhashe
- BHA, Bibliography of the history of art, subject headings/English (Santa Monica, CA: J. Paul Getty Trust ; Paris: Centre national de recherche scientifique)
- bib1814
- 1814-bibliografi: emneord for 1814-bibliografi (Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket)
- bibalex
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina name and subject authority file (Alexandria, Egypt : Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
- biccbmc
-
BIC Children's Books Marketing Classifications
(London:
Book Industry Communication)
- bicssc
- BIC
standard subject categories (London: Book
Industry Communication)
- bidex
- Bilindex: a bilingual Spanish-English subject heading list (Oakland: California Spanish Language Data Base)
- bisacmt
-
BISAC Merchandising Themes
- bisacrt
-
BISAC Regional Themes
- bisacsh
-
BISAC Subject Headings
- bjornson
-
Bjornson: emneord for Bjornsonbibliografien
- blcpss
- COMPASS subject authority system
- blmlsh
- British Library - Map library subject headings (London: British Library
- blnpn
- British Library newspaper place names (London: British Library)
- bt
- Bioethics thesaurus. (Washington, DC: Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown Univ.)
- cabt
- CAB thesaurus (Slough [ England ]: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux)
- cash
- Canadian subject headings (Ottawa, ON: National Library of Canada)
- ccsa
- Catalogue collectif suisse des affiches (Berne: Bibliothèque nationale suisse)
- cct
- Zhong guo fen lei zhu ti ci biao (di er ban) = Chinese Classified Thesaurus (Beijing: Guo jia tu shu guan "Zhongguo tu shu guan fen lei fa" bian wei hui)
- ccte
- Carto-Canadiana thesaurus - English (Ottawa, ON: National Archives of Canada)
- cctf
- Carto-Canadiana thésaurus - Français (Ottawa, ON: Archives nationales du Canada )
- cdcng
- Catalogage des documents cartographiques: forme et structure des vedettes noms géographiques - NF Z 44-081 (Paris-La Défense: AFNOR)
- ceeus
- Counties and equivalent entities of the United States , its possessions, and associated areas (Gaithersburg, MD: National Institute of Standards and Technology)
- chirosh
- Chiropractic
Subject Headings [PDF: 272 KB]
(Download the
Adobe Acrobat Reader to view PDF
documents)
- cht
- Chicano thesaurus for indexing Chicano materials in Chicano periodical index (Berkeley: Chicano Studies Library Publications Unit, University of California, Berkeley)
- ciesiniv
- CIESIN indexing vocabulary (University Center, MI: Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network)
- cilla
- Cilla: specialtesaurus för musik (Helsingfors: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu)
- collett
- Collett-bibliografi: litteratur av og om Camilla Collett (Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket)
- conorsi
- CONOR.SI (name authority file) (Maribor, Slovenia : Institut informacijskih znanosti (IZUM))
- csahssa
- "Controlled vocabulary" in Health and safety science abstracts (Bethesda, MD: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- csalsct
- CSA life sciences collection thesaurus (Bethesda, MD: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- csapa
- "Controlled vocabulary" in Pollution abstracts (Bethesda, MD: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- csh
- Kapsner, Oliver Leonard. Catholic subject headings. (Haverford, PA: Catholic Lib. Assoc.)
- csht
- Chinese subject headings (Taipei: National Central Library)
- cstud
- Classificatieschema's Bibliotheek TU Delft (Delft: Technische Universiteit Delft, Bibliotheek)
- czenas
- Soubor vecných autorit Národní knihovny CR = CZENAS thesaurus: a list of subject terms used in the National Library of the Czech Republic (Praha : Národní knihovna Cseké republiky)
- dcs
- Descritores em Ciências da Saúde = Descriptores en Ciencias de la Salud = Health Sciences Descriptors (São Paulo: BIREME)
- ddcri
- Dewey Decimal Classification Relative Index (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Center)
- ddcrit
- DDC retrieval and indexing terminology; posting terms with hierarchy and KWOC (Alexandria, VA: Defense Documentation Center, Defense Logistics Agency)
- ddcut
- Dewey Decimal Classification user terms (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Center)
- dissao
- "Dissertation abstracts online" in Search tools: the guide to UNI/Data Courier Online (Louisville, KY: UNI/Data Courier Online)
- dit
- Defense intelligence thesaurus. (Washington, DC: Defense Intelligence Agency)
- drama
- Drama: specialtesaurus för teater och dans (Helsingfors: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu)
- dtict
- Defense Technical Information Center thesaurus (Fort Belvoir, VA: DTIC)
- ebfem
- Encabezamientos bilingües de la Fundación Educativa Ana G. Mendez (Puerto Rico: Fundación Educativa Ana G. Mendez)
- eclas
- ECLAS thesaurus (Luxembourg : European Communities, Office for Official Publications)
- eet
- European education thesaurus
- eflch
-
E4Libraries Category Headings
- eks
- Eduskunnan kirjaston asiasanasto (Helsinki: Eduskunnan kirasto)
- embne
- Encabezamientos de Materia de la Biblioteca Nacional de España (Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional de España)
- emnmus
- Emneord for musikkdokument i EDB-kataloger (Directorate for Cultural Heritage)
- ept
- Evropski pedagoski tezaver = European education thesaurus (EET) : slovenska razliica - izdelana po angleski razliici (Ljubljana: Zavod Republike Slovenije za solstvo)
- erfemn
- Erfaringskompetanses emneord
(Nasjonalt senter for erfaringskompetanse innen psykisk helse)
- ericd
- Thesaurus of ERIC descriptors (Washington: Educational Resources Information Center, National Institute of Education, U.S. Dept. of Education)
- est
- International energy: subject thesaurus([Paris]: International Energy Agency, Energy Technology Data Exchange)
- eum
- Eesti üldine
marksonastik
- eurovocen
-
Eurovoc thesaurus (English)
- eurovocsl
-
Eurovoc thesaurus
(Slovenian)
- fast
- Faceted application of subject terminology (Dublin, Ohio: OCLC)
- finmesh
-
FinMeSH
- fire
- FireTalk, IFSI thesaurus (Champaign, IL: Illinois Fire Service Institute)
- fmesh
- Liste systématique et liste permutée des descripteurs français MeSH (Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France : Service information médicale automatisée de l'INSERM)
- fnhl
- First Nations House of Learning Subject Headings (Vancouver, BC: Xwi7xwa Library, University of British Columbia)
- francis
- Base de données FRANCIS: plan de classement = FRANCIS database classification scheme (Vandoeuvre: Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
- galestne
- Gale Group subject thesaurus and named entity vocabulary (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group)
- gccst
-
Government of Canada core subject thesaurus
(Gatineau
[Quebec]: Library and Archives Canada)
- gem
- GEM controlled vocabularies (Syracuse, NY: ERIC Clearinghouse on Information & Technology, Gateway to Educational Materials)
- georeft
- GeoRef thesaurus (Alexandria, VA: American Geological Institute)
- gnd
- Gemeinsame Normdatei (Leipzig, Frankfurt: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)
- gst
- Gay studies thesaurus: a controlled vocabulary for indexing and accessing materials of relevance to gay culture, history, politics and psychology (Princeton, NJ: Michel)
- gtt
- GOO-trefwoorden thesaurus (Den Haag: Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
- hamsun
- Hamsun:
emneord for Hamsunbibliografien
- hapi
- HAPI thesaurus and name authority, 1970-2000 (Los Angeles, CA: UCLC Latin America Center Pubs.)
- helecon
- Asiasanasto HELECON-tietikantoihin (Helsinki: Helsingin Kauppakorkeakoulu)
- henn
- Hennepin County Library cumulative authority list (Edina, MN: Hennepin Co. Library)
- hkcan
- Hong Kong Chinese Authority File (Name) - HKCAN (Honk Kong: JULAC)
- hlasstg
- HLAS subject term glossary (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Hispanic Division, Handbook of Latin American Studies section)
- hoidokki
- Hoitotieteellinen asiasanasto (Helsinki: Sairaanhoitajien koulutussäätiö)
- hrvmesh
- Croatian MeSH / Hrvatski MeSH (Zagreb: Medicinski fakultet Sveucilišta u Zagrebu - Središnja medicinska knjižnica)
- huc
- U.S. Geological Survey water-supply paper 2294: hydrologic basins unit codes (Reston, VA: U.S. Geological Survey)
- humord
- HUMORD (Norway: Universitetsbibliotekene i Oslo, Bergen og Tromsø)
- ica
- Index of Christian art (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University)
- icpsr
- ICPSR controlled vocabulary system (Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
- idas
- ID-Archivschlüssel [Informationsdienst zur Verbreitung unterbliebener Nachrichten] (Amsterdam: Internationales Institut für Sozialgeschichte)
- idsbb
- Thesaurus IDS Basel Bern (Basel: Universitätsbibliothek; Bern: Universitätsbibliothek)
- idszbz
- Thesaurus IDS Nebis Zentralbibliothek Zürich (Zürich: Zentralbibliothek)
- idszbzes
- Thesaurus IDS Nebis Bibliothek Englisches Seminar der Universität Zürich (Zürich: Universität Zürich)
- idszbzna
- Thesaurus IDS Nebis Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Nordamerika-Bibliothek (Zürich: Zentralbibliothek)
- idszbzzg
- Thesaurus IDS Nebis Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Graphische Sammlung (Zürich: Zentralbibliothek)
- idszbzzh
- Thesaurus IDS Nebis Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Handschriftenabteilung (Zürich: Zentralbibliothek
- idszbzzk
- Thesaurus IDS Nebis Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Kartensammlung (Zürich: Zentralbibliothek)
- iescs
- International energy subject categories and scope (Paris: International Energy Agency)
- iest
- International energy: subject thesaurus (Paris, France : International Energy Agency, Energy Technology Data Exchange)
- ilpt
- Index to legal periodicals: thesaurus. (New York, NY: H.W. Wilson)
- inist
- INIS: thesaurus (Vienna: International Atomic Energy Agency)
- inspect
- INSPEC thesaurus. (London: Institution of Electrical Engineers)
- ipat
- IPA thesaurus and frequency list. (Bethesda, MD: American Society of Hospital Pharmacists)
- ipsp
- Defense intelligence production schedule. (Washington, DC: Defense Intelligence Agency)
- isis
- "Classification scheme" in Isis. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press)
- itglit
- International thesaurus of gay and lesbian index terms (Chicago?: Thesaurus Committee, Gay and Lesbian Task Force, American Library Association)
- itrt
- International Thesaurus of Refugee Terminology (New York & Geneva: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)
- jhpb
- Jezyk hasel przedmiotowych Biblioteki Narodowej = National Library of Poland Subject Headings (Warszawie: Biblioteki Narodowej)
- jhpk
- Jezyk hasel przedmiotowych KABA = KABA Subject Headings (Warszawie: Stowarzyszenie Bibliotekarzy Polskich, Centrum Formatów i Kartotek Hasel Wzorcowych Biblioteki Uniwersyteckiej w Warszawie
- jlabsh
- Kihon kenmei hyômokuhyô = Japan Library Association] Basic subject headings (Tokyo: Nihon Toshokan Kyôkai)
- jurivoc
-
JURIVOC
- kaa
- Kasvatusalan asiasanasto (Jyväskylä: Kasvatustieteiden tutkimuslaitos)
- kao
- KVINNSAM ämnesordsregister = KVINNSAM subject headings (Göteborg: Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek, Kvinnohistoriska samlingarna)
- kaunokki
- Kaunokki: kaunokirjallisuuden asiasanasto (Helsinki: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu)
- kdm
- Khung dê muc hê thông thông tin khoa hoc và ky thuât quôc gia (Hà Nôi: Viên Thông Tin Khoa Hoc Và Ky Thuât Trung Uong)
- kitu
- Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen asiasanasto (Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden seura)
- kkts
- Katalogos Kathieromenon Typon Syllogikou Katalogou Demosion Vivliothekon (5 vols.) (Livadeia: Demosia Kentrike Vivliotheke Levadeias)
- kssbar
- Klassifikationssystem for svenska bibliotek. Ämnesordregister. Alfabetisk del (Lund: Bibliotekstjanst)
- kta
- Kielitieteen asiasanasto (Helsinki: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu)
- ktpt
- Kirjasto- ja tietopalvelualan tesaurus (Tampere: Tampereen yliopisto)
- ktta
- Käsi- ja taideteollisuuden asiasanasto (Kuopio: Kuopinon käsi- ja taideteollisuusakatemia taito- ja tutkimuskeskus Taitemia)
- kula
- Kulttuurien tutkimuksen asiasanasto (Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden seura)
- kupu
- He puna kupu / Maori Wordnet (Wellington: National Library of New Zealand)
- lacnaf
- Library Archives Canada name authority file (Ottawa: ON: Library Archives Canada)
- larpcal
- Lista de assuntos referente ao programa de cadastramento automatizado de livros da USP (São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas)
- lcac
- Library of Congress Annotated Children's Cataloging Program subject headings (Washington, DC: LC, Cataloging Distribution Service)
- lcmpt
- Library of Congress medium of performance thesaurus for music (LCMPT) (Washington, DC: Library of Congress
- lcsh
- Library of Congress subject headings (Washington, DC: LC, Cataloging Distribution Service)
- lcshac
- Children's subject headings in Library of Congress subject headings: supplementary vocabularies (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service)
- lcstt
- List of Chinese subject terms (Taipei: National Central Library)
- lctgm
- Thesaurus for
graphic materials: TGM I, Subject terms
- lemac
- Llista d'encapçalaments de matèria en català (Barcelona: Biblioteca de Catalunya, Servei de Normalització Bibliogràfica)
- lemb
- Lista de encabezamientos de materia para bibliotecas (Santafe de Bogotá: Rojas Eberhard Editores, Ltda)
- liv
- Legislative indexing vocabulary (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service)
- lnmmbr
- Lietuvos nacionalines Martyno Mazvydo bibliotekos rubrikynas (Vilnius: LNMMB)
- local
- Locally assigned term.
- ltcsh
- Land Tenure Center Library list of subject headings (Madison, WI: Land Tenure Center Library, University of Wisconsin-- Madison)
- lua
- Liikunnan ja urheilun asiasanasto (Jyvässkylä: Likkunnan ja kansanterveyden edustämissäätiö)
- maaq
- Madâkhil al-asmâ' al-'arabîyah al-qadîmah (Cairo: Maktabah al-Akâdîmîyah)
- mar
- Merenkulun asiasanasto = MariTerm (Maritime technology) (Helsinki: Finnish Maritime Administration)
- masa
- Museoalan asiasanasto (Helsinki: Museovirasto)
- mech
- Iskanje po
zbirki MECH
- mesh
- Medical subject headings (Bethesda, MD: National Library of Medicine)
- mipfesd
- Macrothesaurus for information processing in the field of economic and social development (Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
- mmm
- "Subject key" in Marxism and the mass media (New York: International General)
- mpirdes
- Macrothesaurus para el procesamiento de la información relativa al desarrollo económico y social (Paris: Organización de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos)
- msc
- Mathematical subject classification (Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society)
- msh
-
Trimboli, T., and Martyn S. Marianist subject
headings [PDF: 138 KB]
(Download the
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- mtirdes
- Macrothésaurus pour le traitement de l'information relative au développement économique et social (Paris: Organisation de coopération et développement économiques)
- musa
- Musiikin asiasanasto: erikoissanasto (Helsinki: Kirjastopalvelu)
- muzeukc
- MuzeMusic UK classical music classification (London: Muze Europe Ltd)
- muzeukn
- MuzeMusic UK non-classical music classification (London: Muze Europe Ltd)
- muzvukci
- MuzeVideo UK contributor index (London: Muze Europe Ltd)
- naf
- NACO authority file
- nal
- National Agricultural Library subject headings (Beltsville, MD: National Agricultural Library)
- nalnaf
- National Agricultural Library name authority file (Beltsville, Maryland; National Agricultural Library)
- nasat
- NASA thesaurus. (Washington: NASA, Scientific and Technical Information Office)
- nbiemnfag
-
NBIs emneordsliste for faglitteratur
(Norwegian Institute for Children's Books)
- ncjt
- National criminal justice thesaurus (Rockville, MD: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Institute of Justice, National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
- ndlsh
- Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan kenmei hyômokuhyô =
National Diet Library list of subject headings
(Tokyo: Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan)
[former code for this source was “ndllsh”; replaced April, 2011] - netc
- National Emergency Training Center Thesaurus (NETC)
- nicem
- NICEM subject headings and classification system (Albuquerque, NM: National Information Center for Educational Media)
- nimacsc
- NIMA cartographic subject categories (Bethesda, MD: National Imagery and Mapping Agency)
- nlgaf
- Archeio Kathieromenon Epikephalidon (Athena: Ethnike vivliotheke tes Hellados)
- nlgkk
- Katalogos kathieromenon onomaton physikon prosopon (Athena: Ethnike vivliotheke tes Hellados)
- nlgsh
- Katalogos Hellenikon thematikon epikephalidon (Athena: Ethnike vivliotheke tes Hellados.)
- nlmnaf
- National Library of Medicine name authority file (Bethesda, Maryland: National Library of Medicine)
- no-ubo-mr
- Menneskerettighets-tesaurus (Norwegian Center for Human Rights, University of Oslo)
- noraf
- Norwegian Authority File (Norway: National Library of Norway)
- noubojur
-
Thesaurus of Law (Norway: Universitetsbiblioteket i
Oslo)
- noram
-
Noram: emneord for Norsk-amerikansk samling
(Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket)
- norbok
-
Norbok: emneord i Norsk bokfortegnelse (Norbok)
(Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket)
- noubomn
- University of Oslo Library Thesaurus of Science (Realfagstermer) (Norway: Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo)
- nsbncf
- Nuovo Soggettario (Firenze: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze)
- nskps
- Prirucnik za izradu predmetnog kataloga u Nacionalnoj i sveucilišnoj knjižnici u Zagrebu (Manual for NSK subject headings) (Zagreb: Nacionalne i sveucilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu)
- ntcpsc
- "National Translations Center primary subject classification" in National Translations Center primary subject classification and secondary descriptors (Washington, DC: National Translations Center, Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress)
- ntcsd
- "National Translations Center secondary descriptors" in National Translation Center primary subject classification and secondary descriptor (Washington, DC: National Translations Center, Cataloging Distribution Service, Library of Congress)
- ntids
-
Norske tidsskrifter 1700-1820: emneord
(Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket) - ntissc
- NTIS subject categories (Springfield, VA: National Technical Information Service)
- nzggn
-
New Zealand gazetteer of official geographic
names (New Zealand
Geographic Board Nga Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa
(NZGB))
- nznb
- New Zealand national bibliographic (Wellington: National Library of New Zealand)
- ogst
- Oregon GILS Subject Tree (Oregon: Oregon State Library and Oregon Information Resource Management Division (IRMD))
- opms
- Opetusministeriön asiasanasto (Helsinki: Opetusministeriön)
- ordnok
-
Ordnokkelen: tesaurus for kulturminnevern (Directorate for Cultural Heritage)
- pascal
- Base de données PASCAL: plan de classement = PASCAL database classification scheme (Vandoeuvre: Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
- peri
- Perinnetieteiden asiasanasto (Helsinki: Kirjastopalvelu)
- pha
- Puolostushallinnon asiasanasto (Helsinki: Kirjastopalvelu)
- pmbok
- Guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK Guide) (Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute)
- pmcsg
- Combined standards glossary (Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute)
- pmont
-
Powerhouse Museum Object Name Thesaurus
- pmt
- Project management terminology. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute
- poliscit
- Political science thesaurus II (Pittsburgh: University Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh)
- popinte
- POPIN thesaurus: population multilingual thesaurus (Paris: Population Information Network)
- pkk
- Predmetnik za katoliske knjiznice (Ljubljana: Maribor)
- precis
- PRECIS: a manual of concept analysis and subject indexing (London: British Library)
- prvt
- Patent- och registreringsverkets tesaurus (Stockholm: Patent- och Registreringsverket)
- psychit
- Thesaurus of psychological index terms. (Washington: American Psychological Association)
- qlsp
- Queens Library Spanish language subject headings (Queens, New York: Queens Library)
- qrma
- Qâ'imat ru'ûs al-mawdû'ât al-'Arabîyah = List of Arabic subject headings (al-Kuwayt: Dhat al-Salasil)
- qrmak
- Qâ'imat ru'ûs al-mawdû'ât al-'Arabîyah al-qiyâsîyah al-maktabât wa-marâkaz al-ma'lûmât wa-qawâ'id al-bayânât (al-Qâhirah: Dâr Shurûq)
- qtglit
- A queer thesaurus : an international thesaurus of gay and lesbian index terms (Amsterdam: Homodok)
- quiding
- Quiding, Nils Herman. Svenskt allmänt författningsregister för tiden från år 1522 till och med år 1862 (Stockholm: Norstedt).
- ram
- RAMEAU: répertoire d'authorité de matières encyclopédique unifié (Paris: Bibliothèque nationale)
- rasuqam
- Répertoire d'autorités-sujet de l'UQAM (Montréal: Université du Québec à Montréal, Services techniques des bibliothèques)
- renib
- Renib [base de datos de autoridad] (Santiago de Chile: Biblioteca Nacional)
- reo
- Maori
Subject Headings thesaurus - Nga Upoko Tukutuku
- rero
- Indexation matières RERO (Martigny: Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale)
- rerovoc
- Indexation matières RERO (autorités) (Martigny: Réseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale)
- rma
- Ru'us al-mawdu'at al-'Arabiyah (al-Riyad: 'Imadat Shu'un al-Maktabah, Jam. al-Riyad)
- rpe
- Rubrikator po ekonomike = Rubricator on economics (Moskva: Institut nauchnoi informatsii po obshchestvennym naukam)
- rswk
- Regeln für den Schlagwortkatalog (Berlin: Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut)
- rswkaf
- Alternativform zum Hauptschlagwort
- rugeo
- Natsional'nyi normativnyi fail geograficheskikh nazvanii Rossiiskoi Federatsii (Moskva: Rossiiska íà gosudarstvennaíà biblioteka)
- rurkp
- Predmetnye rubriki Rossiiskoi knizhnoi palaty. (Moskva: Rossiiskaíà knizhnaíà palata)
- rvm
- Répertoire de vedettes-matière (Ottawa, ON, Canada : Bibliothè que nationale du Canada )
- samisk
-
Sámi bibliografia (Norga) = Samisk bibliografi (Norge)
= Sami bibliography (Norway)
(Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket) - sanb
- South African national bibliography authority file
- sao
- Svenska ämnesord (Stockholm: Kungliga Biblioteket, LIBRIS-avdelningen)
- sbiao
- Svenska barnboksinstitutets ämnesordslista (Stockholm: Svenska barnboksinstitutet)
- sbt
- Soggettario Sistema Bibliotecario Ticinese (Cantone Ticino, Svizzera: Sistema Bibliotecario Ticinese)
- scbi
- Soggettario per i cataloghi delle biblioteche italiane (Firenze: Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze)
- scgdst
- Subject categorization guide for defense science and technology (Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, Defense Logistics Agency)
- scisshl
- SCIS subject headings (Carlton South, Vic.: Curriculum Corp.)
- scot
- Schools Online Thesaurus (ScOT) (Melbourne, Vic.: Education Services Australia Ltd.)
- sears
- Sears list of subject headings (New York: H.W. Wilson)
- sfit
- Svenska filminstitutets tesaurus (Stockholm: Svenska filminstitutet)
- sgc
- Spolšni geslovnik COBISS.SI = COBISS.SI General List of subject headings (Slovenian subject headings) (Maribor, Slovenia : Institut informacijskih znanosti (IZUM))
- sgce
- Spolšni geslovnik COBISS.SI = COBISS.SI General List of subject headings (English subject headings) (Maribor, Slovenia : Institut informacijskih znanosti (IZUM))
- shbe
- Subject headings in business and economics (Stockholm: Handelshögskolan i Stockholm)
- she
- SHE: subject headings for engineering (New York: Engineering Index, inc.)
- shsples
- Subject headings for school and public libraries = Encabezamientos de materia para bibliotecas escolares y públicas (Santa Barbara, Calif.: Libraries Unlimited)
- sigle
- SIGLE [System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe] manual, Part 2, Subject category list (Den Haag: European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation)
- sipri
- SIPRI library thesaurus (Stockholm: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute)
- sk
- "Zhong guo gu ji shan ban shu zong mu" fen lei biao [Si ku] (Bei jing: Zhong guo gu ji shan ban shu zong mu bian ji ling dao xiao zu ban gong shi)
- skon
- Att indexera skönlitteratur: Ämnesordslista, vuxenlitteratur. (Stockholm: Svensk biblioteksförening)
- slem
- Sears: lista de encabezamientos de materia (New York: H. W. Wilson)
- smda
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Directory of Airplanes (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Air & Space Museum)
- snt
- Sexual nomenclature : a thesaurus (Boston: G.K. Hall)
- socio
- Sociological Abstracts Thesaurus (Bethesda, Maryland: CSA)
- solstad
- Solstad: emneord for Solstadbibliografien (Oslo: Nasjonalbiblioteket)
- sosa
- Sociaalialan asiasanasto (Helsinki: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu)
- spines
- Tesauro SPINES: un vocabulario controlado y estructurado para el tratamiento de información sobre ciencia y tecnología para el desarrollo (Madrid: UNESCO, ICYT)
- ssg
- Splosni
slovenski geslovnik
- stw
- Standard-Thesaurus
Wirtschaft = STW Thesaurus for Economics
(Kiel: ZBW
- Deutsche Zentralbibliothek fur
Wirtschaftswissenschaften)
- swd
- Schlagwortnormdatei. (Frankfurt am Main: Die Deutsche Bibliothek)
- swemesh
- Svenska MeSH = Swedish MeSH (Stockholm: Karolinska Institutets Bibliotek)
- taika
- Taideteollisuuden asiasanasto (Helsinki: Kirjastopalvelu)
- taxhs
- A taxonomy or human services: a conceptual framework with standardized terminology and definitions for the field (El Monte, CA: Info. and Referral Fed. of LA County)
- tekord
- TEK-ord : UBiTs emneordliste for arkitektur, realfag, og teknolog (Norway: Universitetsbiblioteket i Trondheim.)
- tesa
- Tesauro Agrícola (Beltsville, Maryland: National Agricultural Library)
- test
- Thesaurus of engineering and scientific terms (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Defense)
- tgn
- Getty thesaurus of geographic names (Los Angeles, CA: Getty Research Institute)
- thesoz
-
Thesaurus for the Social Sciences (Germany: GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)
- tho
- Thesauros Hellenikon Oron (Athena: Ethniko Kentro Tekmerioses)
- thub
- Thesaurus de la Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, Centre de Recursos per a l'Aprenentatge i la Investigació, Procés Tècnic)
- tlka
- Työväenliikkeen kirjaston asiasanasto (Helsinki: Työväenliikkeen kirjasto)
- tlsh
- Subject heading authority list (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Library, Transportation Library)
- trt
- Transportation resource thesaurus (Silver Spring, MD: CDB Enterprises)
- trtsa
- Teatterin ja tanssin asiasanasto (Helsinki: BTJ Kirjastopalvelu)
- tsht
- Thesaurus of subject headings for television (Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press)
- ttka
- Teologisen tiedekunnan kirjaston asiasanasto (Helsinki: Helsingin yliopisto)
- tucua
-
Thesaurus for use in college and university
archives (Chicago, IL:
Society of American Archivists)
- ulan
- Union list of artist names (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute)
- umitrist
- University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute structured thesaurus (Ann Arbor, MI: Research Information and Publications Center, University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute)
- unbisn
- UNBIS name authority list (New York, NY: Dag Hammarskjöld Library, United Nations; [ London]: Chadwyck-Healey)
- unbist
- UNBIS thesaurus (New York, NY: Dag Hammarskjöld Library, United Nations)
- unescot
- UNESCO thesaurus = Thésaurus de l'UNESCO = Tesauro de la UNESCO (Paris: UNESCO Publishing)
- usaidt
- USAID thesaurus: Keywords used to index documents included in the USAID Development Experience System. (Washington, DC: U.S. Agency for International Development)
- vmj
- Vedettes-matière jeunesse (Montréal, QC: Services documentaires multimédia)
- waqaf
- Maknas Uloom Al Waqaf (Kuwait : Kuwait Awqaf Public Foundation)
- watrest
- Thesaurus of water resources terms: a collection of water resources and related terms for use in indexing technical information. (Washington: U.S. Bureau of Reclamation)
- wgst
- Washington GILS Subject Tree (Tumwater, WA: Washington State Library)
- wot
- A Women's thesaurus (New York: Harper & Row)
- wpicsh
- WPIC Library thesaurus of subject headings (Pittsburgh, PA: Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic Library, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine)
- ysa
- Yleinen suomalainen asiasanasto (Helsinki: Kirjastopalvelu)
Subject Source Code Usage in MARC and MODS/MADS
MARC 21 Formats and Fields
- Bibliographic records
- 033 $2 (Date/Time and Place of an Event / Source of place term)
- 257 $2 (Country of Producing Entity / Source)
- 380 $2 (Form of Work / Source of term)
- 381 $2 (Other Distinguishing Characteristics of Work or Expression / Source of term)
- 518 $2 (Date/Time and Place of Event Note / Source of term)
- 600-651 $2 (Subject Added Entry - Name, Corporate, Meeting, Uniform Title, Chronological, Topical, Geographic / Source of heading or term)
- 654 $2 (Subject Added Entry -- Faceted Topical Term / Source of heading or term)
- 662 $2 (Subject Added Entry - Hierarchical place name / Source of heading or term)
- 751 $2 (Added Entry - Geographical Name / Source of heading or term)
- 752 $2 (Added Entry - Hierarchical Place Name / Source of heading or term)
- Authority records
- 040 $f (Cataloging Source / Subject heading / thesaurus conventions
- 700-788 $2 (Heading Linking Entries / Source of heading or term)
- 370 $2 (Associated Place / Source of term)
- 372 $2 (Field of Activity / Source of term)
- 373 $2 (Affiliation / Source of term)
- 376 $2 (Family Information / Source of term)
- 380 $2 (Form of Work / Source of term)
- 381 $2 (Other Distinguishing Characteristics of Work or Expression / Source of term)
- Classification records
- 700-711, 730-751, 754 $2 (Index Term - Name, Corporate, Meeting, Uniform Title, Chronological, Topical, Geographic, Faceted Topical / Source of heading or term)
- Community Information records
- 600-651 $2 (Subject Added Entry - Name, Corporate, Meeting, Uniform Title, Chronological, Topical, Geographic / Source of heading or term)
- 654 $2 (Subject Added Entry -- Faceted Topical Term / Source of heading or term)
MODS/MADS Elements
- mods: subject @authority
- mads: authority / topic @authority
- mads: authority / temporal @authority
- mads: authority / geographic @authority
- mads: authority / hierarchicalGeographic @authority
- mads: related / topic @authority
- mads: related / temporal @authority
- mads: related / geographic @authority
- mads: related / hierarchicalGeographic @authority
- mads: variant / topic @authority
- mads: variant / temporal @authority
- mads: variant / geographic @authority
- mads: variant / hierarchicalGeographic @authority
